{"id":893,"date":"2011-05-19T13:37:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T18:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=893"},"modified":"2011-05-19T13:40:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T18:40:48","slug":"tips-for-writers-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=893","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Writers: Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting July 5, I&#8217;m teaching a workshop on beginnings at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savvyauthors.com\/vb\/showevent.php?eventid=655\">Savvy Authors<\/a>. I have a loose outline of topics I discuss, but the real advantage to the couse is that you will get a chance to post the first chapter or two (depending upon size) of your novels and receive specific feedback from me and your peers.<\/p>\n<p>One of the difficulties with giving general advice is that there really isn&#8217;t any such thing as a general audience. You can tell people to eat a low-fat diet, but if you end up reaching a diet-obsessed person looking for more ways to lose weight he or she doesn&#8217;t need to lose, they&#8217;re going to get the wrong message.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, I can tell people to watch out for info dumps, but I might reach someone so scared of info dumps that she forgets to provide any real information. If I tell people to be concise with their word choices, someone who writes skeletal stories will hear and misunderstand. If I encourage description, a long-winded person might get even more out of breath.<\/p>\n<p>But if you participate in a workshop, I&#8217;ll read what you write and respond directly to your style, helping you recognize who you are as a writer, while you decide who you want to be.<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t make it in July, I will also be teaching a World Building workshop in January, Beginnings again in April 2012, and a couple more workshops in the fall of 2012. I say a lot of the same things in both workshops, coming from different angles, but the most important thing I try to do is pay attention to who you are, and help you reach for the next level.<\/p>\n<p>Hope to see you in a class!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting July 5, I&#8217;m teaching a workshop on beginnings at Savvy Authors. I have a loose outline of topics I discuss, but the real advantage to the couse is that you will get a chance to post the first chapter or two (depending upon size) of your novels and receive specific feedback from me and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-for-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}